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But now Suffolk resident Diana Quick is taking on one of her most important roles to date: as a leading activist who opposes a 20 billion pound nuclear power plant off the county coast.
After moving to Suffolk in the 1980s, Ms. Quick, also and director, has temporarily taken an interest in Sizewell B’s projects, which at this level were being reviewed through a plan inspector.
MORE: Sizewell B at 25 – In the history of the Suffolk nuclear power plant “I think if it’s going to be in my backyard, then I need to know more,” he says.
Despite a three-year forensic hearing that was, at the time, the longest and highest public investigation in British history, the wary parties lost the battle.
However, during the process, Ms. Quick, now 73, said, “I am sure that I am convinced that this is not the answer to our energy needs.”
MORE: EDF continues with the Sizewell C app despite local objection And now, after EDF Energy submitted a request to develop plans in May this year to build a new double nuclear reactor in the historic fishing village, Ms Quick is a leading activist in the Stop Sizewell C movement to prevent it from being built.
“The consequences are very serious”
According to EDF, nuclear force is a “national imperative” for the future, and Paul Morton, Sizewell C’s assignment manager and former station manager Sizewell B, said, “I don’t think lighting fixtures will stay lit without it.”
MORE: “Lighting fixtures might not remain on without them,” arguing about The Sizewell B’s stern caution about the long-term nuclear power, Quick said, “In the short term we would probably want small-scale reactors.”
But he said of Sizewell C: “My objection is scale and location.”
She argued that there are “many tactics to supply the energy we need” that have been fully addressed.
He also said it would be more energy-efficient to have smaller-scale sets that supply local areas than giant stations that offer electricity to giant populations.
Although Morton admits that “renewable energy will play a role” in the UK’s electricity supply, he says: “This will not satisfy the nation’s wishes.
“When the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, we still want to feed our homes, pump water, produce our food.”
EDF Energy also argues that “Sizewell C’s ecological footprint is much smaller than that of many low-carbon projects” and that, with weak winds recently, the country has had to have fuel for 40-50% of its electricity.
However, Quick says claims that nuclear power supplies are blank and energy is “far from the case.”